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GLASSE, Robert M. (1930 – 1993)

1930 – 1993

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1968 CE

#10841

Kuru and cannibalism.

Medical anthropologists Lindenbaum and Glass demonstrated that Kuru was transmitted in New Guinea by cannibalism--particularly by eating the brains of infected victims, which were the reservoir of prions. Order of aut…